Howard Lutnick, President Trump's choice to be the next secretary of commerce, accused China's DeepSeek of stealing U.S. technology to make the sophisticated artificial intelligence app that shook investors and erased many billions of dollars in market capitalization for American rivals.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Wednesday he is not a conspiracy theorist and that vaccines are a critical component of health care, using a high-stakes Senate confirmation hearing to defend his "Make America Healthy Again" agenda and accuse Democrats of misconstruing his views or turning on him for partisan reasons.

President Trump's political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They've accused him of rewriting the Constitution and trampling on basic rules of government. But one thing that's been missing in all the early vitriol over his first 10 days is the I-word.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is shooting down the idea that he could throw his support behind one of his rivals in the race to become Democratic National Committee chair, saying he sees a viable path to victory in the eight-person race.

Among the executive orders President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office was one that established an end to the practice of birthright citizenship. “The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” the order said. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright […]

It was odd watching Senate Republicans trying their best to put an unhinged leftist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into a position of power. Perhaps the only thing odder was watching Democrats doing their best to stop them. But nowadays, our principles hinge on the whims of one man. Kennedy, of course, would have garnered […]

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley undermined his position and the U.S. military by his partisan engagement with the media. Milley should have resigned. The performance of former U.S. Central Command commanding officer Gen. Kenneth McKenzie was similarly poor. Responsible for supervising the disastrous August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, McKenzie then […]

Move fast and break things. That’s the original operating philosophy of Facebook founder and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg, and it seems to be the operating procedure of President Donald Trump in these first weeks of his second term.  That makes a certain sense. In a largely successful society, unrocked by revolution, institutions come to be […]

President Trump has signed an executive order freeing up federal funds for school choice programs and ordering the creation of guidance on how states can use federal money for K-12 scholarships.   The signed order, previously confirmed by a White House official, says the Department of Education must prioritize school choice in discretionary grant programs....

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday seeking to fight antisemitism on college campuses and vowing action against "Hamas sympathizers" among student populations. Antisemitism has spiked on campuses after Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, and pro-Palestinian protests roiled campuses last spring, with more than 2,000 arrests at universities across the country.  Trump is...